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Being on “Jeopardy!” has made Niki Peters a victim to a lot of hate, especially on Twitter. The audience seems to be critical of everything from the way she looks to the way she talks. The second place contestant doesn’t take any of these tweets to heart, however, and reads these tweetsRead More…

Niki Peters has been a lifelong “Jeopardy!” fan. She participated in various Quiz Bowl teams in Boise, Idaho and ammassed a wide range of knowledge. In order to become a part of the “Jeopardy!” College Championship, she took a 50 question test in October. Following the test, she was selected forRead More…

Three years ago, the IBM computer Watson showcased the power of artificial intelligence when it defeated two human contestants in a game of Jeopardy! — sifting through 200 million files at the dazzling speed of 80 trillion operations a second.Read More…

Last Friday’s Jeopardy! pitted the three finalists – Terry O’Shea, Tucker Pope and Kevin Shen – against one another to determine who would receive $100,000 and a spot to compete in the Tournament of Champions. Shen began the first round in the last place with $8,765. The first category chosen,Read More…

From the start of the first installment of the two-day Jeopardy! College Championships final Thursday, the game never went UC Berkeley junior Kevin Shen’s way. The trivia show started with a seemingly easy pick — six-syllable words for $200 — that went unanswered by Shen and his two competitors, TerryRead More…

When Alex Trebek announced the final Jeopardy category, there was still a chance UC Berkeley junior Kevin Shen would win the game. Responding correctly, he launched himself into first place. But the lead was only temporary. Outsmarted by a woman from Princeton University, Shen received second place in a preliminaryRead More…